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"Analysts interact among themselves, as a complex community web of knowledge. Analysis of those sorts of networks would be worthwhile, and is being done in the commercial sector, through a variety of tools. In the fall of 2000, the CIA shut down a so-called “chat room” operating unofficially over Agency networks; four employees lost their jobs, with other employees and contractors given reprimands. I had left the Agency in 1994, but numerous of those involved were friends and former colleagues. My impression was that what occurred was more embarrassing than threatening, and that agency management ought to understand how and why such virtual communities form—whether they’re facilitated or frustrated by the “official” infrastructure—and appreciate their value. Various network visualization tools would have readily revealed anomalous (at least as far as official business was concerned) traffic, but analysts will want and need an environment that fosters creativity and community, and ought to be given one."
However, there's a certain degree of internal censorship going on, the way employers often have strict guidelines on employees blogging activities, the CIA recently fired an analyst over an internal blog posting related to the Geneva Convention and torture. Risk management solutions, besides visualization are, of course, taking place as well.
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